That even though the trading in oil futures was massive, OPEC had the resources at its disposal that could readily permit it to deliberately influence price actions on the trading floor or the electronic ether.
But the important portfolios Labor will hold, including the Defense and Foreign Ministries, should permit it to exert a moderating influence on the new government's policies.
Rightly or wrongly, the Internal Revenue Code provisions applicable to churches and other tax-exempt charities prohibit any intervention in a candidate's campaign for elective office at the risk of losing tax exemption, but they permit attempts to influence the legislature to a certain degree.
They said that even if tobacco companies financed research, professors would guard their independence and not permit the companies to influence their results.
Some states require disclosure, but only after a month or more, and critics have said that existing laws permit interest groups to influence candidates with large contributions in the weeks before elections.
According to Santorum, Kennedy said that religious people could "have no role in the public square" and "should not be permitted … to influence public policy".
State law says local development corporations are not permitted to "influence legislation by propaganda or otherwise".
Fusion to a selected target protein permits to influence virtually every process in a cell.
But there's little reason to believe this approach will succeed as long as U.S. law permits American lobbyists to influence national elections in foreign countries.
Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said after the proceeding that Mr. Lipsky, as a lobbyist, "was permitted to influence the legislative process on behalf of his clients with the power of his arguments, not the power of his checkbook".
This relationship would permit the inner coat to influence the arrangement of the outer coat and therefore to play a critical structural role in determining vesicle shape.
